that if the (for lack of a better term) military industrial complex in this country see Israel as a burden, they&#8217;d put Israel in its place. There&#8217;ve always been non-radicals, people who aren&#8217;t exactly human rights types, who see our kneejerk support for Israel as a problem for the rest of our foreign policy. If they&#8217;ve become a majority at the Pentagon, we might have a test case of the Chomsky thesis occurring now. (At the moment it seems to me the two sides are evenly matched).